Tragic Death of Newborn from Infection was not due to Negligence

Tragic Death of Newborn from Infection was not due to Negligence Judith Rogerson Callaghan v South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWHC 1199 (KB) Background  This case arose from the death of the Claimant’s daughter, Imogen, who died from Group B Streptococcus (“GBS”) bacterial meningitis and septicaemia when she…

Consent and Causation

Pepper v Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 310 (QB)  This article originally appeared in Issue 5 (May 2020). The Claimant alleged that she unnecessarily underwent a laparotomy and Whipple’s procedure, an operation undertaken to remove cancerous tumours from the head of the pancreas. The procedure was carried…